15 Free Tools For Mac OS X You Should Bookmark

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Today, we are going to write first post of its kind at SmashingApps. This is the post where we are listing out few great free tools for Mac Operating System, this is an exclusive post for our those readers who are the Mac users. But our other readers will also enjoy this post. Don’t forget to bookmark this post for your future reference as it has few most useful and free application that will be helpful for you when you are on your Mac system. This is absolutely a great list of 15 Free Tools For Mac OS X You Should Bookmark.

SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper’s built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically.

The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for BOMArchiveHelper.app, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder.

With Burn you can burn five different kind of disks. With Burn you can burn Audio CDs and MP3 disks. With Burn you can burn three kind of images. Normal disk images, cue/bin images and toc images. And copy data disks.

Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or “aggregators.” RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more.

Desktop Manager is my own pet project to implement a (hopefully) easy to use virtual desktop manager for OS X. It will be useful to others. Simply run the app and a pager should appear in the status bar and on the desktop.

MindNode is an elegant and simple-to-use mindmapping application for the Macintosh. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple and intuitive user interface that lets the user focus on expressing and developing ideas. Nearly no time is required to learn the interface.

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Superduper was mentioned, this was my preferred choice when using Tiger and never let me down, however when I upgraded to Leopard it took so long for Superduper to get updated for Leopard I had to find a replacement which was Carbon Copy Cloner again works a treat and is free.

Great article, outlined some good tools
Perian should be at the top though.
Maybe its just me but it seems like all the macintosh archiving utilities have really crappy icons for their associated files.
Im just used to the winrar logo on all my archived files though.

Obviously this guy has never bother to learn how to use Preview. You can save a lot of space in your hard drive by not installing applications that replicate Apple’s own apps, as they will never work better than the originals.

This is incredibly sloppy. The Text2iPod screenshot is actually a picture of Journler. (I see from the other comments that someone else has already mentioned this). The description of Desktop Manager is pulled straight from the app’s website, making it sound like it’s *your* pet project rather than *his* pet project — and heaven only knows what its accompanying screenshot is depicting. Not to mention that Spaces has supplanted a lot, though not all, of DM’s functionality in Leopard.

As someone else also mentioned, the Unarchiver screenshot is in fact Cyberduck.

From a subjective standpoint, RSSOwl doesn’t hold a candle to Vienna. It’s clunky Java and hasn’t been updated in a year. It’s like you took the first free RSS client you could find.

And, finally, a lot of these screenshots are from Puma- or Jaguar-era OS X. Things have come a long way in, uh, six years.

Tell you what: You should have saved your first post on Mac OS apps until someone with a modicum of competence could write it.

Super Duper does everything except what I want it to. Author might have mentioned the difference between the free and not free functions. Not sure why Little Snitch says Super Duper must phone home every few minutes. Well, nothing lost except 20 minutes of my time.

I read about “must have” Mac applications every week. I have to wonder if there are kickbacks involved, as I’ve rarely found a useful app from such lists.

I used Stellar Drive Tool Box instead of one-on-one Mac tools which has almost every utility for Mac optimization like Partitioning,cloning,formatting,Deleting,Creating partition,Scanning system everything which you want just in one pack….